Die TeXnische Komödie 7, 1995, Heft 1–4

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TUGboat, Volume 18 (1997), No. 2
Die TEXnische Komodie
Contents of Recent Issues
7. Jahrgang, Heft 1/1995 (Mai 1995)
Luzia Dietsche, [Editorial]; p. 3
A short statement commenting on the current
issue, which `contains more technical than TEXnical
material'.
Hinter der Buhne : Vereinsinternes
[Backstage : Club matters]; pp. 4{20:
Joachim Lammarsch, Gruwort
[Welcome message]; pp. 4{5
A short comment on club matters by the
president of DANTE. In particular, he mentions
that after his resignation as a special director of
TUG all other special directors also left TUG's
Board of Directors. Consequently local groups are
no longer represented on it.
[Luzia Dietsche],
Protokoll der 12. Mitgliederversammlung von
DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung
TEX e.V. [Protocol of the 12th assembly of
members of DANTE]; pp. 5{18
This is the ocial report on the members'
meeting held in Gieen (March 2, 1995). It starts
with the announcement that a member has been
excluded from DANTE by the presidium, then
it continues (as usual) with short accounts on
the various hardware platforms, german.sty and
other special topics (as presented by the appointed
coordinators), followed by a report on the situation
of DANTE (mainly organizational matters), and
its activities (including among others the plans for
a CD containing parts of the CTAN archive, the
installation of a mailbox, and the status of "-TEX).
The results of the election of the board members
are given.
Jurgen Unger, Die Mailbox von DANTE e.V. { es
ist vollbracht [The DANTE e.V. mailbox { done!];
pp. 18{20
DANTE has installed a mailbox for access by
modem.
TEX-Theatertage
[TEX theatre festival]; pp. 21{25:
Thomas Feuerstack, Der Zauber eines Lachelns
[The magic of a smile]; pp. 21{25
A lively and personal account of DANTE '95
(Feb. 28{March 3, 1995). One of the highlights
was an exhibition of the calligraphies from Knuth's
`3:16 { Bible Texts Illuminated' .
Von fremden Buhnen
[On other stages]; pp. 26{27:
Frank Mittelbach [for the LATEX3 Project],
Math Font Encoding (in English); pp. 26{27
An announcement of the nal report on `Math
Font Encoding' (13d007.tex and 13ms002.cls in
/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub, 90 pages) by Justin
Ziegler.
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
[The stage is the world]; pp. 28{30:
Siegfried Splett, Das russische Alphabet mit
\Bordmitteln" erstellt [The Russian alphabet {
done \on board"]; pp. 28{30
A short note on producing Russian letters in
the picture environment of LATEX.
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TEX-Beiprogramm [TEX co-features]; pp. 31{42:
Markus Porto, Weiterhin guten Appetit!
[May it continue to taste good!]; pp. 31{32
The interactive LATEX cookbook installed at
the WWW-server of Gieen (issue 2/1994, p. 43) is
now available as a stand-alone HTML-version.
Bericht des technischen Beirats
[Report of the technical council]; pp. 32{42
A collection of short reports (by the appointed
coordinators) on the various hardware platforms
and other special topics, supplementing those of the
protocol (p. 5).
Rezensionen [Reviews]; pp. 43{44:
Luzia Dietsche, TEX: starting from 1 ;
pp. 43{44
A review of Michael Doob's introduction to
plain TEX. The bottom line: `: : : for all who want
to get a rst impression'.
Leserbrief(e) [Letter(s)]; pp. 45{50:
Jan Braun, WinWord versus LATEX, Heft 4/1994
[WinWord versus LATEX, issue 4/1994]; pp. 45{48
A letter in defense of LATEX, arguing that
the ìntuitive' guidance oered by WinWord and
similar WYSIWYG programs is only supercially
more user-friendly than LATEX with, for example,
an emacs-shell. (LA)TEX makes the experience of
four centuries of typography available, and is one
of the few possibilities| if not the only one | to
get high-quality output: `What you get is what you
want !'
Georg Bauhaus, Gedanken zu Gedanken zu
Gedankenstrichen [Thoughts on thoughts on
dashes]; pp. 48{50
In his answer to an article by Martin Schroder,
the author pleads for more tolerance of (intentional) deviations from the typographical tradition
as presented by the DUDEN (the `bible' of correct
German), e.g., where the `correct' form of a dash
(which diers from American usage) is concerned.
Spielplan [Repertory]; pp. 51{59:
The international and national calendar, and
announcements of conferences (16th Annual TUG
Meeting `Real World TEX' and EuroTEX 1995 `The
TEX Toolbox').
Adressen [Addresses]; pp. 60{63:
Various addresses related to DANTE, the addresses of everyone who has contributed to this
issue, and the addresses of the coordinators in
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charge of the various hardware platforms and other
special topics.
those described earlier by Arne W. Steuer (issue
6/3, 1994)
7. Jahrgang, Heft 2/1995 (September 1995)
Was Sie schon immer uber TEX wissen wollten
This issue is the rst one prepared with a set of
new macros which (also) can be used with LATEX2" .
A short comment on club matters by the president of DANTE: Jurgen Unger (responsible for the
mailbox) has been appointed member of the technical council. There have been problems concerning
TUG membership dues, and Luzia Dietsche also has
left the TUG Board of Directors. Consequently,
DANTE is no longer represented in it.
Von fremden Buhnen
[On other stages]; pp. 6{10:
LATEX3 Project Team, Modifying LATEX2" (in
English); pp. 6{10
`This document describes the principles underlying our policy on distribution and modication of
the les comprising the LATEX system.'
Gerd Neugebauer, Setzen russischer Textteile
mit LATEX [Typesetting portions of Russian text
in LATEX]; pp. 11{20
This article shows how text in Cyrillic fonts
can be inserted into normal text. In particular, the
Cyrillic fonts from the University of Washington
(wncyr, etc.) are described.
Bernd Raichle, Orale Spielereien mit TEX {
Teil II [Oral games with TEX { part II]; pp. 20{30
After a description of the components of TEX,
the program, and the analogy to the ànatomy
of TEX' |mouth, eyes, gullet, stomach, bowels |
expandable (and non-expandable) tokens and some
(tricky) examples concerning numbers are discussed
in detail. (The solution to a question posed in
part I is given.)
Matthias Malek, Style-Files { leicht gemacht {
zum Zweiten [Style les made easy, second time
around]; pp. 31{35
The author presents LATEX macros which allow
the typesetting of labels (for envelopes), improving
[What you always wanted to know about
TEX: : : ]; pp. 36{37:
Bernd Raichle, Datumsangaben
[Inserting the date]; pp. 36{37
Some hints on inserting a customized version
of the current date.
:::
Jurgen Hanneder, TEX unter OS/2 fur
akademische Minderheiten [TEX under OS/2 for
academic minorities]; pp. 30{41
Report on installing emTEX, AucTEX under
OS/2 and adapting the installation for convenient
use of the wsuipa (phonetic) fonts.
Gerd Neugebauer, Kurioses aus dem Fundus
[Curiosities from the property room]; pp. 41{43
The author points out that font changes in
LATEX have unexpected side eects: Some sequences
(e.g. \small\large and \normalsize\large) may
lead to dierent baselineskips.
Frankeye Jones, The Underfull Badness Blues (in
English); p. 44
A song to the tune of \Do Run Run".
[Kleinanzeige] [Advertisement]; p. 45
A computer specialist is looking for a job.
Luzia Dietsche,
Fachworterbuch Kommunikationsdesign
[Dictionary of communication design]; pp. 46{47
A review of `Fachworterbuch Kommunikationsdesign' by Petra Wilhelm (Springer 1995), a reference on typography, design and graphics.
the announcement of a conference (DANTE'96 in
Augsburg).
special topics.
7. Jahrgang, Heft 3/1995 (Dezember 1995)
A short overview of the contents of the issue |
a lot of technical and TEXnical material.
president of DANTE. Among others he mentions
the production of the rst CD-ROM in cooperation
with Addison-Wesley (a supplement to a book that
will be available separately for members), and the
nal outcome of the exclusion of a member (he has
withdrawn his accusations).
[Luzia Dietsche],
Protokoll der 13. Mitgliederversammlung von
DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung
TEX e.V. [Protocol of the 13th assembly of
members of DANTE]; pp. 6{20
This is the ocial report on the members'
meeting held in Berlin (September 14, 1995). After discussing and conrming the exclusion of a
member who had accused DANTE ocials of manipulating an election, the assembly continues (as
usual) with short accounts on the various hardware
platforms (as presented by the appointed coordinators), and reports on other special topics such as
TUG, TUG'95, EuroTEX'95.
Joachim Lammarsch, Die A ra des Prasidenten
geht zu Ende [The era of the president ends];
pp. 20{21
The president announces his (forthcoming) resignation and looks back on ten years of work for
DANTE. He thinks that Luzia Dietsche would be a
suitable successor.
Joachim Lammarsch, Fonds zur Unterstutzung
von Mitgliedern [Funds to subsidize members];
p. 21
A short announcement that (under certain
conditions) members can apply for a reduction in
membership dues.
Bernd Raichle, TEX Capacity exceeded : : :
{ Teil I [TEX Capacity exceeded : : : { part I];
pp. 22{33
The author discusses the various errors which
lead to the error message cited in the title of this
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article. In this rst part the topics treated in detail
are buffer size (long lines), input stack size,
and text input levels.
Bericht des technischen Beirats
[Report of the technical council]; pp. 34{43
A collection of short reports (by the appointed
coordinators) on the various hardware platforms
and other special topics, supplementing those of the
protocol (p. 5). Among others, a new German book
is mentioned: LATEX Tips by Kenneth Shultis (a
translation of the 1994 book on LATEX 2.09).
Joachim Schrod, TDS { Die vorgeschlagene TEX
Directory Structure [TDS { A proposal for a TEX
directory structure]; pp. 44{47
This article reports on 15 months of work done
by the TUG committee and describes the aims of a
TDS standard, but does not describe the proposal.
Joachim Lammarsch, Beschreibung der CD-ROM
von DANTE e.V. [Description of the DANTE
CD-ROM]; pp. 48{50
A short description of the CD-ROM produced
by DANTE (cf. p. 4). It is an excerpt from a book
(CTAN/3 { Das TEX/LATEX-Archiv von DANTE
e.V.).
Norbert Hesse, Ernder von TEX, LATEX und
Metafont geben zu: Alles Betrug!!! [The
inventors of TEX, LATEX and Metafont admit:
all fraud!!!]; pp. 50{51
A (satirical) article inspired by a text of Bernhard L. Hayes: Lamport and Knuth admit that
their work was meant as a parody.
Gerd Neugebauer, Wie verfat man
wissenschaftliche Arbeiten? [How to write a
scientic paper]; pp. 52{53
This is a review of: Klaus Poenicke, Duden. Wie verfat man wissenschaftliche Arbeiten?
Though this book, originally published in 1988,
seems to contain a reference to TEX, it does not
suciently treat the rôle of computers. (DUDEN
is a major publisher of dictionaries, lexicons and
handbooks.)
The international and national calendar.
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special topics.
7. Jahrgang, Heft 4/1995 (Marz 1996)
The author announces a special LATEX2" class
(cf. p. 6) for the Komodie , which soon will get a
new layout design. Moreover, she gives a short
overview of the contents of the current issue.
president of DANTE. Among other topics he
discusses various CD-ROMs which contain TEX
material.
Gerd Neugebauer, Eine Klasse fur die \Die
TEXnische Komodie" [A class for \Die TEXnische
Komodie"]; pp. 6{15
The author describes the LATEX2" document
class used for production of the Komodie (mainly
developed by himself).
Bernd Raichle, Orale Spielereien mit TEX {
Teil III [Oral games with TEX { part III];
pp. 15{29
The third instalment of the series discusses situations where TEX inserts a \relax token which, in
some cases, may be annoying (e.g., in a \message),
but which also can be used to devise `dirty tricks'
(as explained using a tricky conditional statement
credited to David Kastrup). (The answers to two
questions posed in part II are given.)
Werner Lemberg, Das CJK-Paket fur LATEX2"
[The CJK package for LATEX2" ]; pp. 30{40
The CJK package (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
supports the simultaneous use of dierent multibyte
coding schemes under LATEX2" . It is designed to
work with the MULE (multilingual Emacs) editor.
Was Sie schon immer uber TEX wissen
wollten : : : [What you always wanted to know
about TEX : : : ]; pp. 41{42:
Bernd Raichle, Kapitalchen in U berschriften
[Caps and small caps in headings]; pp. 41{42
The author points out that the standard fonts
do not provide a bold caps-and-small-caps font
and that, as a result, LATEX2" uses bold roman
font when logos dened using \textsc appear in a
heading. He shows how to use \DeclareFontShape
to get (normal) caps and small caps instead.
Andreas Dafferner, Luzia Dietsche, Bernd
Raichle, Volker RW Schaa, and Rainer
Scho pf, Das alternative (LA)TEX-Glossar
[The alternative (LA)TEX glossary]; pp. 43{47
This is a collection of (short) humorous denitions of LATEX commands and terms.
Rainer Hulse, 4allTEX { eine Ready-to-Run-CD
auf dem Prufstand [4allTEX { testing a
ready-to-run CD]; pp. 48{52
The author describes his experiences with the
4allTEX distribution (3rd edition) by the NTG (the
TEX users group of the Netherlands) including a
look back on the 2nd edition. His overall impression
is good, but he makes some constructive critical
remarks. His bottom line: The main aw of the
installation is that it assumes the use of 4DOS.
the announcement of TUG'96 (Poly-TEX) in Dubna.
special topics.
(compiled by Peter Schmitt)

Die TeXnische Komödie 7, 1995, Heft 1–4

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